Beginning in the early 1980s Aboriginal Australians found in music,
radio, and filmic media a means to make themselves heard across the
country and to insert themselves into the center of Australian
political life. In The Voice and Its Doubles Daniel Fisher analyzes
the great success of this endeavor, asking what is at stake in the
sounds of such media for Aboriginal Australians. Drawing on
long-term ethnographic research in northern Australia, Fisher
describes the close proximity of musical media, shifting forms of
governmental intervention, and those public expressions of intimacy
and kinship that suffuse Aboriginal Australian social life. Today's
Aboriginal media include genres of country music and hip-hop; radio
requests and broadcast speech; visual graphs of a digital audio
timeline; as well as the statistical media of audience research and
the discursive and numerical figures of state audits and cultural
policy formation. In each of these diverse instances the mediatized
voice has become a site for overlapping and at times discordant
forms of political, expressive, and institutional creativity.
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